Nursing

Caring & Giving

"Why 2020 Will Forever Be the Year of the Nurse": A Look Back on How the Pandemic Has Impacted Nursing

Johnson & Johnson has a long legacy of supporting the nursing community—and the challenges brought on by COVID-19 have only strengthened its commitment to find new ways to give back to these essential healthcare workers over the past year.

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"I'm a Nurse Who's Also a Healthcare Entrepreneur": Meet the Woman Behind an App Designed to Help Nurses Battle Burnout

Treating patients day and night is just one part of the job description for this enterprising nurse, who has made it her mission to help fellow nurses persevere during the pandemic and beyond. And it's not her first great healthcare innovation.

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Nurse entrepreneur Charlene Grace Platon

Innovation

Could the Answer to Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Be as Simple as Better Oral Care? This Nurse Thinks So

Some 157,000 patients are diagnosed with the condition each year. But trailblazing nurse Dian Baker has a straightforward yet innovative solution.

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A close-up of a woman brushing her teeth

Caring & Giving

4 Ways Johnson & Johnson Is Helping Heroes Who Work at the Very Front Lines of Healthcare Around the World

In time for the Aspen Ideas: Health festival, where he will be speaking, Michael Sneed, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs & Chief Communication Officer of Johnson & Johnson, shares why nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers are a critical facet in improving worldwide health.

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Personal Stories

“They Needed to Feel Loved”: How One Nurse Revolutionized Patient Care During the AIDS Crisis

In the early 1980s, Cliff Morrison did what no other San Francisco General Hospital staff member had the guts to do: come up with a humane way to treat and care for AIDS patients. We sat down with him to learn more about the life-changing initiative to practice compassionate nursing—and how the legacy of Ward 5B lives on.

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Images of Cliff Morrison at Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital, and a plaque memorializing Ward 5B

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365 Days of Caring: 13 Ways Johnson & Johnson Helped Progress Health for Humanity in 2018

From a $10 million pledge to UNICEF in support of health workers to promising news about a preventive HIV vaccine regimen, the company’s new 2018 Health for Humanity Report details how Johnson & Johnson is dedicated to creating a better future for everyone, everywhere.

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School-age members of a program that aims to reduce HIV infections among young women in sub-Saharan Africa

Innovation

Modern-Day Nightingales: Meet Three Enterprising Nurses Who Moonlight as Inventors

From a clever way to help prep kids for surgery to a baby bottle nipple shaped just like Mom's, these nurses' bright ideas helped them win Johnson & Johnson's first nursing innovation challenge—and a total of $100,000 in grant money.

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Personal Stories

"We Need to Treat Nurses Like Gold": Maria Menounos Joins a New Campaign to Support Nurse Innovators

For International Brain Tumor Awareness Week, the celebrity interviewer opens up about how her recovery from a brain tumor inspired her to become an ardent advocate for enterprising nurses on the front lines of care.

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Caring & Giving

How the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Inspired a Lifesaving Disaster Nursing Training Program

It was the strongest earthquake on record in Japan—and it devastated Tohoku. In observance of the United Nations' International Day for Disaster Reduction, we tell the stories of survivors-turned-students of the Tomodachi J&J Disaster Nursing Training Program, who are transforming personal tragedy into hope for the future.

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The Tomodachi J&J Disaster Nursing Training Program class of 2018 posing in front of the Children’s National Health System helicopter, which transports sick patients.

Caring & Giving

Nurse Innovators: The Change Agents of Healthcare

When Johnson & Johnson launched its Campaign for Nursing's Future more than a decade ago, it helped address a dire nursing shortage. Now it wants to inspire nurses to be medical trailblazers.

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Personal Stories

"I’ve Always Considered Myself a 'MacGyver' Nurse": How One Woman Is Propelling Healthcare Forward

Johnson & Johnson knows all about the great impact nurses can have—like Roxana Reyna. Recently, for National Nurses Week, she shared the innovative ways she cares for the tiniest patients.

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10 Ways Johnson & Johnson Is on a Mission to Advance Health for All People—Everywhere

In recognition of World Health Day on April 7, company leaders explain what #HealthForAll means to them—and how that commitment shapes everything they do on the job.

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Our Heritage

Katherine Hannan: The Intrepid Nurse Who Battled the Deadliest Flu Pandemic in History

Some 50 million people would succumb to the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918. And this Johnson & Johnson employee went out of her way to be at the very front lines of caring for the sick.

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Red Cross Nurses Prepare to Tend to Influenza Victims During WWI, as Hannan Would Have

Caring & Giving

5 Ways One Company Is Working to Boost the Health of the African-American Community

From partnering with the Black AIDS Institute to reduce HIV infection rates to improving representation in clinical trials, learn how Johnson & Johnson has made it a mission to help address disparities in healthcare.

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Caring & Giving

3 Nursing Superstars Who Are Helping to Reshape Healthcare in East Africa

Since 2001, Johnson & Johnson has helped support the Aga Khan University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery. As its latest group of students starts class this week, we sat down with a trio of alumni who are now giving back to their local communities in major ways.

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